MUGGING ON TAPE

He was arrested in 2008 on charges that he attacked 85-year-old Lillian France and three other victims in their late 60s and 70s. A detective who had arrested Abson in a previous robbery recognized him on surveillance footage of the attack on France.

The surveillance camera caught Abson choking France and stealing $900 and her cane.

He was sentenced to at least 17 years on Friday in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn.